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Originally Posted by Catlady
Who said they were breaking the law? The issue is whether the consumer can be bound by an agreement that he or she does not specifically agree to.
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It goes further than that in the UK. In a number of circumstances even if the customer has technically "agreed" to a supplier's T & Cs they are not valid and cannot be legally enforced.
e.g. !. if the T & Cs are inside a shrink wrapped product and cannot be read before purchase.
2. A carparking company printed its T & C's on the back of the tickets it issued. It was held in court that they could not be enforced because the customer could only read them after paying for the ticket.
3. Where they are the supplier's standard T & Cs and contain clauses the court thinks are "unfair" or attempt to limit or abrogate the customer's statutory rights.